Velocipede



(N15 Model.)

0 M. TRAUTMANN.

VELOGIPEDE.

No. 248,531. Patented Oct. 18,1881.

STATES ITE PATENT Farce.

CHARLES M. TRAUTMANN, OF TRAUTMANN STATION, ASSIGNOR TO WALTER TV. BOSTWIOK, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

VELOCIPEDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,531, dated October 18, 1881,

Application filed September 5, 1881. (No model.)

- To all whom ti may concern:

Be it known that I, OHARLns M. TRAUT- MANN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Trautmann Station, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Velocipedes, of which the following is a specification.

lVIy invention relates to an improvement in to velocipedes and it relates more particular to the steering apparatus of three-wheeled velocipedes containing an actuating-seat, in com bination with rocking hand and foot levers to drive the wheel, whereby the weight of the rider is added to the hand and foot power.

It consists, first, in providing a socket with gudgeons or pivots for attachingthehand and foot levers to the frame of the velocipede, so that both hands and feet may be used to actu- 2o ate the lever and drive the wheels, the handlever swiveling in the socket so as to allow it to be turned in horizontal as well as vertical planes, butindependent ofthelatter motion, so as to allow it to be turned horizontally to turn the pilot-wheel for steering the velocipede.

A second feature of my invention consistsin combining with swiveling hand-lever a cam. which is attached by crank-and-lever connections to the pilot-wheel in such a manner that 0 the hand-lever can be turned in its swiveljoint, and by means of crank and pitman turn the pilotwheel to the right or left andsteer or guide the velocipede in straight or curved right and left lines.

Other features of my invention will be fully explained in the description of the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation through the center of the machine longitudinally. Fig.

3 is a broken sectional elevation on lineyy, Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a sectional plan on line 0000, Fig. 3.

A represents a pilot-wheel.

B B represent the rear driving-wheels for 5 supporting the crank-axle 0, one of which is made fast,to the axle, and the other wheel running loose.

D represents the frame of the machine, which is preferably made of malleable iron, of the form here shown, with the rear or forked end of the frame provided with wrist-bearings, in which the crank-axle O journals.

E represents a foot-lever.

6 represents a socket, formed upon the upper end thereof to receive the hand-lever F, which swivels on the socket-plate c.

frepresents gudgeons, which turn or pivot on the frameD. The gudgeons attach thehand and foot levers to the frame D and form the bearings for the forward and backward rocking motion of the hand and foot levers E F.

9 represents a cam rigidly attached to the hand-lever F, and projecting through aslot in socket c and lower end of lever F, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The forward edge of cam g is a segment of a circle the center of which is the center of gudgeon f.

H represents a slotted crank-arm, rigidly attached to a vertical axle, which is supported on a cross-piece, d, of the frame. Cam 9 engages in the slot or notch of crank-arm H. As the hand-lever is turned in circular planes to the right or left, the arm H is correspondingly turned by the cam g, and as the periphery of the cam 9 always maintains the same vertical plane when it is rocked by means of the hand or foot lever, it will readily turn the arm H at all points of its circular movement imparted by the hand and foot levers.

I represents a crank-arm attached to the lower end of axle h of crank-arm H.

Krepresents a link, rigidly attached to a secondary crank-arm, I, which is attached to the swiveling forked standard m, which supports the pilot-wheel A. This standard at is swiveled in the usual manner on theframe D, so as to feeely turn to the right and left.

0, Fig. 8, represents the swivel-joint attachin g the forkstandardm to frame D.

1 represents a pitman, connecting the crank- 0 axle O to the foot-lever E.

It represents a link, connecting the actuating-seat S to the foot lever E.

8 represents gudgeons, on which the actuat ing-seat is mounted so as to rock freely back 5 and. forth from the frame D by the motion of the body of the operator.

It is obvious that the form of the can], link, and crank mechanism for moving the pilot= wheel so as to cause itto travel in right or left lines by turning the swiveling hand-lever F can be variously modified, and mechanical substitules used for different parts thereof, without departing from the principal features of my invention.

I claim- 1. In combination with a velocipede having an oscillating seat to assist in driving the wheels, the combination of the pivoted rocking hand and footlever by means of a swivel joint connection, whereby the hand-lever is allowed to turn in horizontal as well as vertical circular planes, substantially as herein set forth.

2. In a velocipede having the hand-lever F attached to the oscillating foot -lever by a swivel-joint connection, the combination, with said hand and foot levers, of crank-link devices for turning the pilonwheel and steering the machine, substantially as herein set forth.

3. In combination with the pivoted lever E, 20 socket e, and swiveling-lever I ,the oscillating cam 51, adapted to operate the crank-armH and turn or steer the pilot-wheel, substantially as herein set forth.

4. In combination with the pivoted lever E, socket 0, and swiveling-lever F,theoseillating cam g, the periphery of which is the segment of a circle whose center is the axis of the sup porting oscillating lever, to which it is attached.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES M. TRAUTMANN.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN E. JONES, J. H. CHARLES SMITH. 

